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I have trouble opening & saving yahoo email attachments using Windows XP SP2 over 95% failure rate?
I have asked Yahoo customer care with out a successful answer. 95% of the time when I try to open my Yahoo email attachments the system will sit there in the file open box for over 15 minutes with the envelop moving from left to right but never getting to the save to box. Yet every so often with the right timing it will allow me to open & save files normally. Problem is I can't be certain when that will happen so I forward that file to my work email using MS Outlook with everything opening & saving just fine 100% of the time.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I am having a similar problem. With me, everything seems to work until I try to open the files I just saved and they are empty. Then I noticed that after downlaoding and saving each attachment, 0 bytes were transferred. So I do not end up waiting for anything to download..it happens very quickly because nothing actually got downloaded, although it appears as though it did.
When this first stared happening, I was able to go to My Attahcments and was able to download from there, rather than right from the email. But now that is not working in the same way..0 bytes get transferred and although it appears as though it worked, nothing gets downloaded.
I just contacted customer service, but it looks like you got no help from them. This is beyond annoying, right? For me, the problem only seems to happen when the file I'm trying to download and save to my pc is larger than 2MB.
I too have not had any issues downloading files from another email account, such as aol. So this is definitely a yahoo problem, not something with my pc.
Good luck and let me know if you get an answer either froim here or from customer service.
- 5 years ago
I have to agree with Hemppy on some aspects. It is just like making improvements to a software written and incomplete in all respects viz., XP. They called the improved software as SP2 and SP3. There ended XP's final and error free product. You can go for Service Pack 3 if you are interested as a final encounter. But if you have money and time to spare, then you can explore VISTA for some time and get back to XP always. My experience tells, XP S3 is ultimate. Other softwares are being written to empty your pocket for extra space, extra memory, Mother Boards, HDDs, Pen Drives which are unnecessary. When you can run anything and everything on XP platform, what is the use of upgradation and wasting your money on unwanted things. Just attempting upgradation always is not advisable too. XP SP2 is an Operating System. You can upgrade this upto SP3. MS Office XP Professional with Front Page is enough to work with and the best from all the angles. I worked on Office 2007 and found it not so user friendly.
